Saturday, August 16, 2008

The Moon

Saturday evening at 10:15pm in western Washington

We took a little drive south to Olympia about 7:00pm. When we came out of the Wal Mart at 8:15pm the moon was bright pink. I'm thinking it may have been the sunset reflecting on it. I had my camera and tried to get a picture of it then but there was just no place I could get an unobstructed view of it.

Linda down in California took some awesome pictures. My camera is only a 3.2MP so mine aren't as good as hers. She called it a sturgeon moon and I Googled "sturgeon moon" and sure enough that's what it's called~goes back to the Native Americans who called it that because August was the month that they caught more sturgeons. September's full moon will be a "harvest moon." (Reminds me of a song)

Those are really good shots. The moon here in Texas was just about as orange as it could be so I guess it does have something with where you are located. I took a couple of shots at it but my Kodak didn't come close to these pics. Will check out the other link. Thanks:).........alice

Actually hubby took the pictures but he used my camera.... my new Canon Power Shot with a 10X optical zoom.... I love the new zoom feature compared to my old camera with a 4X optical zoom... hubby still has a better zoom on his Minolta camera with a 12X optical zoom.... so no telescope... did you know they have binoculars now that take pictures...The Sturgeon Moon is also referred to as the red moon.....and your moon shots are great too, looks also like the sun, the moon is so bright... that's what the moon looked like shining through our bedroom window last night, lol...Thanks for the mention...Linda :)

About Me

I've lived in beautiful western Washington all my life. I'm divorced and the mother of a married son (Jim)and a married daughter (Julie). Julie and her husband are the parents of my two grandchildren Harrison age 21 and Meghanne age 20. I retired in February 2007 from a large health system and love to travel locally and up and down the west coast with my friend Bob. We've also been on several cruises & loved the experience. I love to buy & sell on eBay and after being an Avon Rep since 1976, I retired from Avon in May of 2009.